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That done, I glanced at imen was parceled out into daily stints, while mine was set up for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays It was possible he was still at the gym I closed up the office and went down the back steps to the lot, where I keepup on the way, and caught Bobby just as he was co His hair was still damp from the shower and the scent of Coast soap radiated from his skin Despite the facial paralysis, the crippled left arinal Bobby Callahan shone through, young and strong, with the blond good looks of a California surfer I’d seen pictures of him broken, and by comparison, he now seemed miraculously whole, even with the scars still etched on his face like tattoos done by an a automatically at his chin "I didn’t expect to see you here this ," he said

"Hoas your workout?"

He tilted froh his

"I have a request, but you don’t have to agree," I said

"What’s that?"

I hesitated for a o up the pass with me and shohere the car went off"

The slanced away fro toward his car with that lilting gait "All right, but I want to stop by and see Kitty first"

"Is she allowed to have visitors?"

"I can talk my way in," he said "People don’t like to deal with cripples, so I can usually get anything I want"

"Spoiled," I said

"Take any advantage you can," he replied sheepishly

"You want to drive?"